* February 24 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.

Although he was a staunch opponent of Christianity, Galerius ended the Diocletianic Persecution when he issued an edict of toleration in 311.

Their marriage was the occasion for the jointly-issued " Edict of Milan " that reissued Galerius ' previous edict allowing Christianity to be professed in the Empire, with additional dispositions that restored confiscated properties to Christian congregations and exempted Christian clergy from municipal civic duties. The redaction of the edict as reproduced by Lactantius-who follows the text affixed by Licinius in Nicomedia on June 14 313, after Maximinus ' defeat-uses a neutral language, expressing a will to propitiate " any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens ".

Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius ( see Edict of Toleration by Galerius ), acting outwardly as responding to the demands of various urban authorities asking for the expelling of Christians.

Eventually, on the eve of his clash with Licinius, he accepted Galerius ' edict ; after being defeated by Licinius, shortly before his death at Tarsus, he eventually issued an edict of tolerance on his own, granting Christians the rights of assembling, of building churches, and the restoration of their confiscated properties.

A previous edict of toleration had been recently issued by the emperor Galerius from Serdica and posted up at Nicomedia on 30 April 311.

In 311 AD, Roman Emperor Galerius issued a general edict of toleration of Christianity, in his own name and in those of Licinius and Constantine I ( who converted to Christianity the following year ).

The Great Persecution officially ended in April 311, when Galerius, senior emperor of the Tetrarchy, issued an edict of toleration, which granted Christians the right to practice their religion, though it did not restore any property to them.

In 295, either Diocletian or his Caesar ( subordinate emperor ), Galerius, issued an edict from Damascus proscribing incestuous marriages and affirming the supremacy of Roman law over local law.

Compendium extract: Diocletian to the Death of Galerius: 284 – 311

Galerius died naturally in 311.

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* Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman Emperor ( d. 311 )

Galerius (; c. 260 – April or May 311 ), was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311.

Then on the death of Galerius, in May 311, Licinius entered into an agreement with Maximinus Daia, to share the eastern provinces between them.

On the death of Galerius, in 311, Maximinus divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself.

* Edict of Toleration ( 311 ), by Galerius before his death.

Three Roman Emperors were born in the municipality of Zaječar ; Galerius ( r. 293 – 311 ), Maximinus ( r. 305 – 312 ) and Licinius ( r. 308 – 324 ).

Having received the emperor Galerius ' instruction to repeal the persecution in 311, Maximinus had instructed his subordinates to desist, but had not released Christians from prisons or virtual death-sentences in the mines, as Constantine and Licinius had both done in the West.

* Galerius and Constantine's Edicts of Toleration 311 and 313, from the Medieval Sourcebook

* 311 – The Edict of Toleration by Galerius was issued in 311 by the Roman Tetrarchy of Galerius, Constantine and Licinius, officially ending the Diocletian persecution of Christianity.

* 311 – Galerius dies at Sardica.

* Galerius Maximianus, Roman emperor, 305 – 311

** 311, Emperor Galerius dies from disease, Suicide of Ex-Emperor Diocletian.

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Galerius, even more devoted and passionate than Diocletian, saw political advantage in the politics of persecution.

* Hierocles, proconsul of Bithynia who instigated the persecution of the Christians under Galerius

Hierocles is said to have been the instigator of the fierce persecution of the Christians under Galerius.

* May 5 – Emperor Galerius declares on his deathbed religious freedom and issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

According to Lactantius, " That /> Galerius might urge /> Diocletian to excess of cruelty in persecution, he employed private emissaries to set the palace on fire ; and some part of it having been burnt, the blame was laid on the Christians as public enemies ; and the very appellation of Christian grew odious on account of that fire.

Her home was at Neocaesarea in Pontus and during the persecution of Christians under Galerius, Macrina supposedly fled with her husband to the shores of the Black Sea.

There is no firm evidence for Sergius and Bacchus ' schola gentilium having been used by Galerius or any other emperor before Constantine I, and given that persecution of Christians had begun in the army considerably before the overall persecutions of the early 4th century, it is very unlikely that even secret Christians could have risen through the ranks of the imperial bodyguard.

In the winter of 302, Galerius urged Diocletian to begin a general persecution of the Christians.

Galerius ended the persecution in the East in 311, but it was resumed in Egypt, Palestine, and Asia Minor by his successor, Maximinus.

In this " Second Tetrarchy ", it seems that only the Eastern emperors, Galerius and Maximinus, continued with the persecution.

Eusebius accuses Galerius of pressing on with the persecution as well.

Galerius does nothing to violate the spirit of the persecution — Christians are still admonished for their nonconformity and foolish practices — Galerius never admits that he did anything wrong.

Narseh sent an ambassador to Galerius to plead for the return of his wives and children in the course of the war, but Galerius had dismissed him.

Galerius convinced Diocletian that the culprits were Christians, conspirators who had plotted with the eunuchs of the palace.

Diocletian and Maximian were both present on 11 November 308, to see Galerius appoint Licinius to be Augustus in place of Severus, who had died at the hands of Maxentius.

The country was fairly productive, especially after the great forests had been cleared by Probus and Galerius.

It was expected that Maxentius would remain within Rome and endure a siege, as he already had successfully employed this strategy during the invasions of Severus and Galerius.

Caesar Galerius led the pagan movement against Christianity and arrived to bring up Diocletian against Christianity in the year 302: first Christian soldiers had to leave the army, later the Church's property was confiscated and Christian books were destroyed.

Although prior to 303 there appeared to be tacit agreement between the Tetrarchs that Constantius ’ s son, Constantine and Maximian ’ s son Maxentius were to be promoted to the rank of Caesar once Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, by the end of 304 Galerius had convinced Diocletian ( who in turn convinced Maximian ) to appoint Galerius ’ s nominees Severus and Maximinus Daia as Caesars.

Constantine, disappointed in his hopes to become a Caesar, fled the court of Galerius after Constantius had asked Galerius to release his son as Constantius was ill. Constantine joined his father's court at the coast of Gaul, just as he was preparing to campaign in Britain.

It was said that he had put to death Severianus, the son of the emperor Severus, as well as Candidianus, the son of Galerius.

Constantine firmly controlled his father's army and territories, and Galerius could pretend that his accession was part of the regular succession in the tetrarchy, but neither was the case with Maxentius: he would be the fifth emperor, and he had only few troops at his command.

By the middle of 310 Galerius had become too ill to involve himself in imperial politics.

Galerius invaded Mesopotamia, which Narses had occupied hoping to check his advance.

*** Note: Constantius's soldiers had proclaimed Constantine augustus immediately upon Constantius's death on July 25, 306, but the augustus in the East, Galerius, acknowledged him only as caesar to Severus

Diocletians wife Prisca bore him a daughter Galeria Valeria, who married Galerius ( whom Diocletian had adopted and appointed caesar on March 1, 293 ).